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I was just wondering which of your books was the first to come out in hardback. I’m hunting for first editions, and would like a point in the right direction. Thank you for your marvelous work, and your posts.

I could swear Brokedown Palace had a story about a knight in a wood getting stuck in a swamp but I can’t find it in the text. Is it another book of yours? I thought it was told by the Coachman, and very much had the flavor of Brokedown Palace. It has been driving me mad, trying to find that story as parts are lodged in my brain but not the whole thing.

Are those stories from any particular mythology? I love them, greatly. Also your books in general, but those stories are particularly haunting.

Steven,
Just read some of your blog. Wish I had known you when we both were teenagers. You’re going to be in San Diego over the 4th of July. Is that as close as you will get to L.A.?
Your long lost cousin,
Diane (Brust) Moss

I don’t know if this is the right place to post this question, seems it has been awhile since there has been a post here but it’s worth a shot. I am currently re-reading Issola and once again came to the passage where Vlad says something like ‘I was once embarrassed because the guy could jump a twenty foot crevasse but that worked out alright because it turned out he was wearing the wrong kind of boots, long story don’t ask” I’m paraphrasing here because I don’t have the book in front of me at the moment but the point is everytime I read this passage I have the ghost of a memory about reading about this in another Taltos story but can’t find it or any other references to it. Am I crazy or tricking myself into remembering falsely? Is there any mention of this somewhere else in the cannon?

Okay, after reading “Feng’s” about elevnty-dozen times, I caught “Wreck of the Gordon Lightfoot”…And I smiled the rest of the day laughing.
Not much into fantasy stories myself, but this book is falling apart from use. 🙂